# ADOBE INC.

Summary updated: 2026-10-03T21:41:10.796407Z
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## Overview

Adobe Inc. is a software company whose products help people and organizations create and publish content, work with documents, and deliver digital customer experiences. Its offerings include creative tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, document products such as Acrobat, and generative AI tools including Firefly. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P91697846) Adobe states its mission is “to empower everyone to create.” [2](https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe.html)

The company serves customers globally, with its business spanning creative and document productivity products as well as digital marketing and customer-experience solutions. Adobe reported FY2025 revenue of $23.769 billion for the year ended November 28, 2025. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6203971) As of that date, it had 31,360 employees, half in the United States and half internationally. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P20239565) Adobe describes its workforce as operating across 70 locations around the world. [5](https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/leaders/gloria-chen.html) Founded in 1982, Adobe introduced PostScript, its first product, in 1984. [6](https://www.adobe.com/cis_ru/about-adobe/leaders/founders.html)
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## Products & services

Adobe’s creative products include Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere and After Effects, alongside Adobe Express, a web and mobile app for creating, editing and customizing content. Its Firefly generative-AI platform supports image and design workflows, while Firefly Services provides enterprise APIs for more than 30 content-production capabilities, including resizing assets for different channels and generating campaign variants. Firefly Foundry enables businesses to build tuned models using their own intellectual property. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258982)[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P91697846)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P163319480)

Adobe’s document products include Acrobat and Acrobat Studio. Acrobat supports creating, reviewing, collaborating on, approving, signing and tracking documents; its AI Assistant can answer questions about a PDF or materials in PDF Spaces. Acrobat Studio combines Acrobat, Express and AI agents for document insights, productivity and content creation. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258985)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P166313205)

For customer experience and marketing, Adobe offers Analytics and Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Experience Manager, Commerce, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Marketo Engage and Campaign. Experience Manager includes Sites for web and app content management, Assets for digital-asset management, and Forms for digital onboarding and form workflows. Adobe also offers CX Enterprise Coworker, an AI agent for coordinating marketing and customer-engagement workflows across Adobe and third-party applications. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258982)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P70447311)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P166313248)

Adobe also provides consulting, training, maintenance and technical support. In FY2026, Adobe combined its former reportable segments, so its latest filing does not provide current revenue shares by product family. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258740)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167259036)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258958)
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## Geographic presence

Adobe reports revenue across three geographic regions: Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific (APAC). For the nine months ended August 28, 2026, revenue was $11.601 billion from the Americas (59%), $5.400 billion from EMEA (27%), and $2.775 billion from APAC (14%). Adobe generally attributes revenue to the geography where the customer manages use of its offerings. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T19528222)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167259039)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P29800514)

In FY2025, revenue was $14.120 billion in the Americas, $6.289 billion in EMEA, and $3.360 billion in APAC. The Americas figure included $12.529 billion from the United States and $1.591 billion from other countries in the region. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11436994) Adobe’s FY2025 filing identifies its corporate headquarters as San Jose, California, where it had approximately 1.7 million square feet of office space. Net property and equipment at year-end was $1.591 billion in the United States, $1 million in other Americas, $101 million in EMEA, and $180 million in APAC. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P58180602)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3175668)

Adobe’s office directory lists locations by region, and its Adobe Research careers page identifies research locations including London and Bengaluru. The company’s leadership page describes a workforce of more than 30,000 employees across 70 locations worldwide, but does not provide a regional employee breakdown or an as-of date. [22](https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/contact/offices.html)[23](https://research.adobe.com/careers/)[5](https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/leaders/gloria-chen.html)
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## Business segments

Adobe’s latest reporting, for the nine months ended August 28, 2026, presents the company as **one operating and reportable segment**. Adobe combined its former three segments in Q1 FY2026 as management shifted to unified selling motions and integrated product innovation; accordingly, current filings do not provide separate revenue shares for those former segments. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258958)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P167258683)

The latest annual breakdown of the former segments is FY2025: **Digital Media** generated $17.649 billion, about **74.3%** of total revenue; **Digital Experience** generated $5.864 billion, about **24.7%**; and **Publishing and Advertising** generated $256 million, about **1.1%**. Shares are approximate and based on FY2025 total revenue of $23.769 billion. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11518804)

Digital Media focused on tools and services for creating, publishing and promoting content, plus productivity and document collaboration, including Creative Cloud, Acrobat, Express and Firefly. [26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P4309591)[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P91697846) Digital Experience provided marketing and customer-experience tools spanning analytics, customer data, content management, commerce and campaign engagement. [27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P101165975)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64332981) Publishing and Advertising comprised a portfolio of offerings for areas including eLearning, technical document publishing, web conferencing, document and forms workflows, web app development, high-end printing and advertising. [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P102400373)[30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P101033427)
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## Company history

Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles “Chuck” Geschke. [31](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/12/04/from-digital-publishing-to-the-next-35-years-of-creating-experiences) The company’s early milestones included PostScript in 1984, Illustrator in 1987, Photoshop in 1990, and Acrobat and PDF in 1993. [32](https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript.html)[33](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/03/01/happy-birthday-illustrator)[34](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/02/19/celebrating-35-years-of-creativity-community-innovation-with-adobe-photoshop)[35](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2018/06/14/evolution-digital-document-celebrating-adobe-acrobats-25th-anniversary)

Adobe expanded beyond its original publishing and creative-software business by completing its acquisition of Macromedia in 2005 and Omniture in 2009. [36](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913949/000104746905010580/a2156088zex-99_1.htm)[37](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000110465909060040/a09-26394_13ex99da5e.htm) Shantanu Narayen became CEO in December 2007. [38](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P25407079) In 2013, Photoshop CC marked the Creative Cloud era for the flagship application. [39](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/legacy-version-updates.html) Adobe further expanded into commerce and marketing by completing the Magento acquisition in June 2018 and the Marketo acquisition in October 2018. [40](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2018/06/19/adobe-acquires-magento-commerce)[41](https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/assets/investor-relations/pdfs/103118adobecompletesacquisitionmarketo.pdf)
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